Thursday, December 17, 2009

If an Adventurer causes the Djinni to leave the Lamp, and that Adventurer did not last cause the Djinni to enter the Lamp, then that Adventurer may add 1 to his Wishes within 24 hours.

Remove the following text from Rule 2.4:

If anything causes the Djinn to be inside the Lamp, he shall remain there for 24 hours, at which point he shall be outside the Lamp.

If more than half the EVCs on this Proposal contain the phrase ‘three wishes, please’, disregarding capitalization and punctuation, then replace the number 1 in the first block above with the number 3.

Yet again. I’ve made it only one wish, to avoid wish farming via wishing the Djinni in and out of the Lamp. However, I would still prefer 3, for the tradition value if nothing else, and I think the ‘did not last cause the Djinni to enter the Lamp’ clause will prevent wish farming by that method. I’ll leave it up to everyone else.

Why three wishes is too many:
PLAYER A: I wish Player B had whatever you need to release the Djinni from the bottle. I wish the Djinni was in the bottle.
PLAYER B: I release the Djinni from the bottle. I wish Player A had whatever you need to release the Djinni from the bottle. I wish the Djinni was in the bottle.
PLAYER A: I release the Djinni from the bottle.
[Players A and B now each have 4 wishes.]

BlogNomic is a self-modifying game where the rules change
as the game goes along. Players make blog posts proposing additions or alterations to the ruleset, discussing
and casting votes in the
comments: if enough vote in favour, the rules are changed there and then.

The game has been running since 2003 and resets every month or so. New players are always welcome and can join in at any time.

"Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that respect it differs from almost every other game. The primary activity of Nomic is proposing changes in the rules, debating the wisdom of changing them in that way, voting on the changes, deciding what can and cannot be done afterwards, and doing it. Even this core of the game, of course, can be changed."